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    Building the Pinnacle Creek Mining & Timber Co. RR

    1 – going from 2 cars on the tipple in pic 1 to 1 car on the tipple in pic 2. 2 – caboose is different – window in pic 1 / no window in pic 2. 3 – going from no car in engine house in pic 1 to car in engine house in pic 2. 4 - going from no object in front of the hopper on the tipple when...
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    Building the Pinnacle Creek Mining & Timber Co. RR

    Car tipple - Pic 1 has 2 carson tipple, Pic 2 has 1 car (thank you chris) Caboose - Pic 1 there is a window on the body, Pic 2 no window (thank you dave) Pic 1 engine house no rolling stock inside. Pic 2 a hopper car pulled in the engine house The engine numbers appear to be different. I...
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    Where to Put Signals?

    signals The way CbarM placed the signals matches the way CSX has installed their new signals on the old L&N mainline sidings between Louisville and Nashville. The sidings are signaled for bi-directional usage, and was resignaled in 2009.
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    Anyone have a ho scale point-to-point?

    turntables CSX has a turntable at Queensgate yard in Cincinnati KY Google Western Hills Viaduct Cincinnati OH in google maps switch to satellite view and zoom in then look just to the north of the bridge itself. I watched a loco being turned on this turntable from the Western Hills...
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    the A&D,Original NS,and SCL

    The A&D interchanged with the original ACL/SAL at Norfolk Va., Franklin Va., Emporia Va., La Crosse Va. They did not interchange with the original NS however; If you look at this map: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e390/MikeMacDonald/AD3.jpg They actually never crossed or interchanged...
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    steep gradient

    Just for informational purposes, Madison Indiana has the steepest grade ever used on a class one RR, 5.89%. the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad incline that connects the hilltop area to the old city. Completed in 1841, the Madison incline of 7,012 feet was - and remains today - the steepest...
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